皆様 　　京都大学の岩井原です． 　　VLDB＠ニュージーランド併設の，情報統合に関するワークショップの論文 募集をご案内させていただきます． ---------------------- International Workshop on New Trends in Information Integration (NTII 2008) 28th August 2008, New Zealand http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~grajeev/ntii/index.html In conjunction with the 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2008) 24th-30th August 2008 Information Integration is a well studied subject in academia. However, its use in practice is not as widespread as one would have expected - as per Gartner around 80% of the data in enterprises today is unstructured which is not integrated with the structured data. The reason for this gap between theory and practice is that researchers have explored the generic algorithms required to handle the problem of information integration. Each domain, however, has its own unique set of requirements and challenges which severely restrict the integration of structured and unstructured data in practice. E.g., integrating contact center call audio with structured (transaction and profile) data in real time requires efficient techniques which are highly scalable (due to the huge customer profile data) and work on noisy transcribed data; integrating customer emails with customer profile information require techniques which work in the presence of partial user information (present in the e! mail); whereas certain domains require information integration techniques to be aware of the users' access rights and perform integration in an event based manner. Such requirements lead to the development of new algorithms and approaches for doing information integration across structured and unstructured data. These new approaches will govern the success of information integration in practice as they are motivated on real problems. The aim of this workshop is to encourage researchers in the information integration community to present novel issues and techniques related to applying information integration in different areas (especially in the context of integrating structured and unstructured data). The workshop will serve to present new ideas to researchers which would help drive the research in information integration from being "generic" to being more focused and realistic. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in information integration, data warehousing, active databases, privacy and trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following: - Schema discovery and mapping - Handling data uncertainty and reliability in integration - Information integration issues on noisy unstructured text - Entity Discovery over poor quality of data - Data materialization and virtualization approaches - Record Linkage Issues - Constraint based data integration - Actionable Information Integration - Context Oriented Information Integration - Event Based Information Integration - User centric Information Integration - Integration issues in Peer-to-peer networks - Privacy Preserving Information Integration - Streaming Data Integration - Enterprise specific applications in all domains - Information Mash-up and Web 2.0 - Real-Time business intelligence over integrated data - Semantic search over integrated data - Real-Time Information Integration PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. We also encourage submissions describing work-in-progress or lessons learnt in practise. Submissions must clearly identify the nature of the paper as research, experience, or position. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed and evaluated on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of expression. By submitting a paper, authors explicitly agree that at least one of them will register for the workshop and present the paper. Submissions must be in the standard VLDB format and should not exceed 10 pages. Each submission must be accompanied by a separate cover letter with title, key words, every authors name and affiliation, and must specify a contact author along with postal address, phone & fax numbers, and email address. Manuscripts should be submitted electronically as PDF or PS files via email to Mukesh Mohania (mkmukesh@in.ibm.com). Each submission will be acknowledged by e-mail. If acknowledgment is not received within 3 days, please contact the organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline April 15, 2008 Notification of Acceptance May 30, 2008 Camera Ready Copy June 15,2008 Workshop August 28, 2008 ORGANIZATION WORKSHOP CHAIR: Laura Haas (IBM Almaden Research Center, USA) PROGRAM COMMITTEE CO-CHAIRS: Zachary Ives (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Mukesh Mohania (IBM India Research Lab, India) PUBLICITY CHAIR: Manish Bhide (IBM India Research Lab, India) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Divy Agrawal (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA) Phil Bernstein (Microsoft Research, USA) Kevin Chang (UIUC, USA) Yi Chen (Arizona State University, USA) Alin Deutsch (University of California San Diego, USA) AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin, USA) Alon Halevy (Google Inc., USA) Mizuho Iwaihara (Kyoto University, Japan) Masaru Kitsuregawa (Kitsuregawa, Toyoda Lab, Japan) Craig Knoblock (University of Southern California, USA) Sergey Melnik (Microsoft Research, USA) Ullas Nambiar (IBM India Research Lab, India) Felix Naumann (Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany) Evaggelia Pitoura (University of Ioannina, Greece) Prasan Roy (Aster Data Systems, USA) Michael Schrefl (JKU Linz, Austria) Kohichi Takeda (IBM Tokyo Research Lab, Japan) Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA) Millist Vincent (University of South Australia, Australia) Ji-Rong Wen (Microsoft Research Asia, China) Xiaofang Zhou (The University of Queensland, Australia) ================================================== 岩井原　瑞穂 (IWAIHARA Mizuho) iwaihara@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp 京都大学　大学院情報学研究科　社会情報学専攻 〒606-8501 京都市左京区吉田本町 TEL: 075-753-9138 FAX: 075-753-4970